Alert archive / Kansas / Tornado Watches / 2015
Tornado Watches in Kansas, May 2015
10 tornado watches in May 2015. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 10
- Busiest day
- May 16, 20153 tornado watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 9:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Doniphan, Marshall, Nemaha | 118 min |
| May 6, 1:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Barber, Barton, Butler, Clay, Cloud, Comanche and 31 more | 7 hr |
| May 6, 8:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Clay, Cloud, Cowley and 28 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 12:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove and 25 more | 11 hr |
| May 16, 2:41 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Decatur, Finney, Ford, Gove, Graham and 24 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Anderson, Atchison, Brown, Coffey, Doniphan, Douglas and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 6:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Allen, Butler, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Greenwood and 6 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 10:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bourbon, Cherokee, Crawford | 5 hr |
| May 24, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Finney, Ford and 23 more | 10 hr |
| May 27, 2:26 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Cheyenne, Clark, Finney, Ford, Gove, Grant and 21 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clark County4
- Finney County4
- Ford County4
- Gove County4
- Grant County4
- Gray County4
- Greeley County4
- Hamilton County4
- Haskell County4
- Hodgeman County4
- Kearny County4
- Lane County4
- Logan County4
- Meade County4
- Morton County4
- Rawlins County4
- Scott County4
- Seward County4
- Sheridan County4
- Stanton County4
- Stevens County4
- Thomas County4
- Wichita County4
- Butler County3
- Cowley County3
- Sumner County3
- Cheyenne County3
- Ness County3
- Sherman County3
- Wallace County3
- Brown County2
- Doniphan County2
- Marshall County2
- Nemaha County2
- Clay County2
- Cloud County2
- Comanche County2
- Dickinson County2
- Edwards County2
- Ellsworth County2
65 more counties
- Harper County2
- Harvey County2
- Jewell County2
- Kingman County2
- Kiowa County2
- Lincoln County2
- McPherson County2
- Marion County2
- Mitchell County2
- Ottawa County2
- Phillips County2
- Reno County2
- Republic County2
- Rice County2
- Rooks County2
- Saline County2
- Sedgwick County2
- Washington County2
- Chautauqua County2
- Elk County2
- Greenwood County2
- Decatur County2
- Graham County2
- Norton County2
- Trego County2
- Barber County1
- Barton County1
- Ellis County1
- Osborne County1
- Pawnee County1
- Pratt County1
- Rush County1
- Russell County1
- Smith County1
- Stafford County1
- Chase County1
- Geary County1
- Lyon County1
- Morris County1
- Pottawatomie County1
- Riley County1
- Wabaunsee County1
- Anderson County1
- Atchison County1
- Coffey County1
- Douglas County1
- Franklin County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Johnson County1
- Leavenworth County1
- Linn County1
- Miami County1
- Osage County1
- Shawnee County1
- Wyandotte County1
- Allen County1
- Labette County1
- Montgomery County1
- Neosho County1
- Wilson County1
- Woodson County1
- Bourbon County1
- Cherokee County1
- Crawford County1
Nearby
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.